Celebration in the Springs.

Beau had a full house with Kimber, Jordan and the two kids.  So, Barb, Susie and I stayed in Manitou at the buffalo lodge.

and bycle resort

We had a great room with a kitchenette, there was a heated pool and bikes

We didn't see a buffalo but we did see a Black Bear just blocks away.

Jace the birthday boy playing with parchment paper.

We put Kensley to work shucking corn for the party

This late night party crew went for a 3.7 mile run.

Make a wish

I wish I had a fork....

Gluttons of punishment or adventure they did the incline too.

Who took my teeth?

Sweet.

 Uncapped and spun out several frames to honey today

 The workers will clean out any honey left in the frames.

 Just over 3 gal. when its all said and done.

 clean up and then hit the tub for a bit. 

 The color and flavor of honey will vary depending on the source of the nectar. I try not to mix frames from different hives when I harvest honey.  As a general rule the darker the honey the stronger the taste.

The color and flavor of honeys differ depending on the nectar source (the blossoms) visited by the honey bees. In fact, there are more than 300 unique types of honey available in the United States, each originating from a different floral source. Honey color ranges from nearly colorless to dark brown, and its flavor varies from delectably mild to distinctively bold, depending on where the honey bees buzzed. As a general rule, light-colored honey is milder in taste and dark-colored honey is stronger.

A Market Place Find.

 I checked out market place on FB and found an 8' Shakespheare fly rod and real 

 So I went up to get the gear and met up with Susie

for a bike ride and lunch, before heading to Platteville to check 

Steve's hive

It worked on this rainbow

 and this one too.

Well, that's good.  I'll just hit a few good holes before I head back to the car.

And then whop! I knew it was a good fish and after loosing a big bass last weekend I wanted to make sure this one didn't get hung up in the weeds and break off.

16"+  Catch and Release.

Staycation At Camp-O-Jimmy.

Thursday afternoon I rolled into a great campsite, located just south of Chesnut Mountain Resort and only a couple miles away from the boat launch at Blandings Landing.

 The campground hoast, Jimmy showed us around  

 We watched as he added some blue dye to the water.  He said,  it need to give the Blue gills their color

 Jimmy also preformed some amazing stunts on his four wheeler.

 We toured some of the homes of the Galena Territories

 I guess the only downside of our stay was,  the punnishment for inapproaperiate behavior is a stint at Botonamo Bay.

 Fishing action was hot on both a texas rig rubber worm 

and blue gills on a fly rod with poppers.  Note, the vibrant blue colors on this spesimen

By Saturday am it was time to break camp.  Until next time...

The End.

The Polinator Mosaic Pannel is Done!

 After prepairing the backer board in mid-April, Susie drew on the design

 Application piece by piece.

 Installed

 A little fine tuning.

 The final piece!

Time to grout

Float trip with Steve.

 Steve and I dwecided to beat the heat and hit the park

 The temperature was in the 90's* F by the time we hit the stream

 At one of the first shady bends below the bluff  I caught the first of many nice trout.

a 14" brown.

 I also got a nice rainbow out of the same stretch of water

 We just got off the lake as the rain came down

 what a great day... We kept 9 and I releaced another 4 or 5 

 sheltering in place from the rain under the tailgate

Time for a picknick.

Back Home

 Susie had things looking good

 In Dubuque 

And Bellevue 

 Blue berries are just starting

 This is the first harvest

 Marty and I biked back in to the tubes

 The water was still up over the spillway

 fish were few and far between

 Mart caught a few 

 and the pelicans caught some